One season at a farm... and not even a whole season... and I'm planning to run a market garden, CSA and young farmer's collective next year and break into the Toronto scene. Next year... when I will be tied up building yurts in Nova Scotia until the end of May. I have no land, no farm, no tools or implements. I plan to live in my yurt... the yurt I haven't started building. Part of me is almost embarassed at throwing myself into it after one broken season.
But I realized that growing vegetables isn't the only thing involved in starting a garden. In fact, I think it's pretty easy to grow vegetables. The hard part is knowing what to do with them once they've grown. The mad dash to sell and distribute the ripening vegetables that will go bad within days. Harvesting and marketing... it is all business and planning. So starting small projects and enterprises, organizing, advertising, networking, planning... all this is needed. And This is where I have experience and This is why I feel confident about it.
Whenever I get overwhelmed or get cold feet, I try to think what else I would do. There is nothing. All I know how to do is farm. I think that's all I ever knew how to do I just didn't have the farm to farm on, so how could I have known.
Oh I'm also writing a book on homesteading this winter, designing it, printing it and binding it... as well as two more issues of the Driftwood Quarterly. Life is busy.
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